Engineer Charged with Planting Listening Device in Office of Chat GPT Maker
A Saudi national has been charged by the FBI after allegedly planting a covert recording device at Open AI – the maker of Chat GPT – headquarters.
TL;DR
- Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineer, is charged with planting a covert recording device at the company's San Francisco headquarters.
- The device was found in an executive conference room used for sensitive AI discussions.
- Alfozan was allegedly seen on CCTV near the room and returned to inspect the device.
- A second recording device was found in a bag he left unattended, leading to his reporting to the FBI.
- OpenAI stated there's no indication of customer data theft or model/code exfiltration.
- Alfozan faces up to five years in prison and a substantial fine if convicted.